Day: January 12, 2019

Chipping locations throughout the five boroughs AKA Where Christmas Trees Go to Die

“Treecycle” your Christmas tree into mulch at Washington Square Park this weekend. Trees brought to the park are chopped on site into wood chips and used to “nourish” NYC street trees and plantings and also made available to the public. This is taking place on January 12th & 13th at NYC Parks throughout the city.

(Note: Get there on time. People tend to just leave trees at the park at odd hours!)

Watching the trees sadly make their way through the chipper, I tend to side with Phoebe from “Friends” (*see video below) but this fate is better than ending up in a landfill.

The NYC Parks Department said more than 30,000 trees were “recycled” in 2016; the city agency noted that in 2018 “more than 25,000 trees” were chipped, so the number went down significantly – did less people buy trees or did fewer people “treecycle?” I definitely have mixed feelings on the buying of Christmas trees to then just be discarded although they are festive and do look pretty.

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For my Activist Friends

Realize that little things lead to bigger things ... And there's a wonderful parable in the New Testament: The sower scatters seeds. Some seeds fall in the pathway and get stamped on, and they don't grow. Some fall on the rocks, and they don't grow. But some seeds fall on fallow ground, and they grow and multiply a thousandfold. Who knows where some good little thing that you've done may bring results years later that you never dreamed of.
~ Pete Seeger